well suddenly the numbers have grown from couple here, possibly to ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly coming in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torchlight. >> use to always be enough. or they were banging pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft. so they reach straight from gunpowder usually the elephants just run button but sometimes they charge and it's us who have to run and, nic story on the all new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper, one whole hour, one whole story that air is next

only on cnn thank you all very much for joining me this evening and all weekend. >> i'm alex marquardt. good night and have a good week. >> welcome to the whole story. i'm anderson cooper, the iconic asian elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka which is home to roughly 7,000 wild elephants. but these animals are in danger. rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while building homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live. these remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to ve alongside humans, but that means they're destroying farmlands of aiding fences and even holding up cars times on the road to demand food farmers tried to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. and the elephants will often attack and kill the people they counter. more than one elephant

today is dying from human activity and one person every two days from elephant attacks. cnn's nick paton walsh traveled to free lanka to witness this deadly conflict and over the next hour, he's going to show you just how intense these battles can be and what the elephants are doing to survive in this new world? some of the images in this hour may be disturbing to watch the twist in our time, how nature behaves so unnaturally one turng on u because we turned on it the biggest have taken this cruel can thanks the hardest driven from their homes elephants now

need to break into to us fighting for food space water, life a mirror of so many conflicts between humans around us their struggle for life. >> huge, urgent lumbering, something to behold and empathize because it is our struggled to assign of what is also is also happening to he is seeking space to breathe on a crowded earth gentle get timelessly patient and careful elephants have for centuries

prefer to keep their distance their strength intelligence, complexity, mean they always a fascination this is the place. where every dusk to drink it's good to peasant rebels between them it's quite a lot of them here because if at any moment they friend they could charge this isn't sightseeing. >> it's an early warning system these are locals on guard to protect their crops, just 200 yards away from being trampled by the elephants, mostly at night here in sri lanka the lord of a forest has become a farmland pest sanjay has observed elephants for years fascinated and has now

become this villages night watch man when you don't atlanta? you're going to give it out and funny it's dusk tends to dark. >> sleep is a thing of the past this farmers mother-in-law was killed by an elephant a decade ago. >> are but then and then the very young and hani video of the islander, our site now he

would likely be fair. >> that keeps little sudo and wake tonight hi we're going to mean long 'll pi does safer

just ten days earlier, an elephant killed a woman at a bus stop near here. but night's have become about patrols, survival keeping your crop, your livelihood, safe base of this, conflicts, weapons firecrackers fund the flashes well suddenly the

numbers have grown from a couple here, possibly to ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly come in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torch light used to always be enough, or they would bang pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft so they reach straight for gunpowder usually the elephants just run button, but sometimes they charge it's us who have to run plus the risks they take every night when flash bang lands it makes that noise. >> they could be charged or the other phone could run vigor of

the world nice when i there was good reason why nobody risks falling asleep for a brief moment, for tortious go dark and they tried to rest then a russell awakes them and meters away is a large bull already in the crop he is sneaked in the validly love it the worst kind of outcome when the elephants slip through the fence towards the village itself this is a

large elephant called a tosca for too obvious ivory reasons he's big and pretty angry and moving along the outskirts of this village. there are literally people's homes on the other side over pretty flimsy electric field thanks clicking noise is the electric current in the wire is next to us at the moment what i've called it later sand use plot again is under threat by a large group and this time they run village life here, as we saw over four nights in the thrall of their larger

neighbors it's become a life here. drinking, fretting listening in the black and then the dogs, always the first to sound the alarm, pick up from inside the houses i think one as broken into the settlers it out there. let they spotted any signs the elephant could kill, particularly their kids and the elephant is likely also terrified lured by the smell of food, but now trapped in time like to alleyways, hunted they may work what do you forgot mega one man up ahead seems to be holding a rifle or shotgun

the whole model get it got. >> yeah. >> this man says the elephant tesol was small and ran off between the holmes as this video filmed by local a month earlier shows, often they are up close we drive around the edge of the village. soon it is clear how many are now inside the wire? some big fires lit by other farmers have not stopped some slipping in between the crops. >> and so we witnessed an extraordinary standoff between a likely terrified lost group of three elephants and one desperate man the flashlight

deters them, but the farmer needs to be sure the oldest of tools in a fight for land that is new to our time for both species every night with the dark amplifying the panic as we drive away, a family spill out onto the village road they are meters away from human homes that decades ago, they might have never even glimpsed it takes daylight to understand the geography, the why behind the nights chasing and final works these are the field sand you protect here is the

treeline where we first saw the elephants it is all perilously close and below, these are not elephants, but cattle human addition to this landscape, one that eats that that the elephants need to consume. such a huge amount of daily we have shifted into what was long, their space. and so their nightly invasions, a really them returning to their homes posing the question of whether it's us or them. that's become a pest i had to buy something where it was supposed to hang it in the attic enough room to keep your cargo and your secrets safe nothing dems my light like a migraine with nortech odi team. i found relief b. only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent all-in-one to those

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thinking i'm thinking about her honeymoon. i africa our hot air balloon rais, when with elephants weight three, four, to safari. >> great question. like everything takes a little planning four, with a mind towards a down payment on a ranch in montana with horses. let's take a look at those scenarios. >> jpmorgan wealth management has advisors and chase branches and tools like wealth plan to help keep you on track. when you're planning for it. all the answer is jp morgan wealth management there's not much we haven't already put nature through, made it ghoulish, alien, even glow as if it's not formidable enough. >> the way we found it what

makes this scene feel even more out of joint is that the elephants, they're parading here are also objects of worship this is about harnessing that power. but doling them for a wider spectacle this it's para harris the festival of the secret to fills the streets of the shoreline can city of candy every year with ten nights of flame, dance and elephants when buddha died and was cremated, the story goes is left canine tooth was found in the ashes it became a symbol of great power in sri lanka but, the power on show here is ugly all power over nature, and the damage we are doing to our world daily so

much of it to forests, oceans, glaciers things that cannot fight back but elephants are rooted, forced from their homes by our unhinged expansion, have become a violent sin of nature repelling us we need it we revere it. but just look at how brutalized in our axis of admiration here, we cause some great stress and pain the parade is blocked as one elephant has gone astray, but they have to pin down the

chains are aimed at pulling the legs apart painfully, limiting movement please tell us to stop filming and move back about mega officials can during tranquilizer russian, a week earlier, a woman was hospitalized when several elephants from anna mock we do not see the elephants fate the parade resumes that journey to that moment it takes cameras have preparation they don't venerated the focus of

religious moment of great import get also clearly in pain. >> has that bent into shape the long bobby lobbies loss of don't monk been body first people and elephants share the land, about half of srilanka but a species, the one shot hi to in the jungle is experts say, ever more in conflict with humans there are about 6,000 elephant it's in sri lanka. and in 2023, week killed 476 of them they killed hundred and 69 people being knocked out. >> it is not normal for an elephant to sway back and forth

like this. it is a sign of stress there is what seems to be blood on the floor hello i'm a hoot is a human. >> they've learned to obey yeah hey shaphan, towards the

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sleepless world where breakneck expansion into sri lanka's forests has fueled an economic recovery after three decades of civil war ended in 2009 near the village of we're had a gala. this reservoir is being built in the cool of night, right across elephant territory the human decision was simple. the president of the time toward rural areas asking people what they wanted here someone said a lake. >> it's incredible at night how the building just never seems to stop quite wise, even need it out here just. don't get to really understand most people say they aren't short of water, but they might be one day if they keep expanding like this so really this is building to prepare for future building a loop of unchecked growth

dependent on itself it's not long until we see the first signs of nature hitting back more goal rather that cut of other weather david was driving his rickshaw taxi down the road. >> when he says he ran into an elephant, he has a head injury while we hit with love it one what with mega? >> his trunk. and distressed i rely on one day his vehicle, his income is crushed at the front either in the egg why him, but the one yeah data across the villagers here. >> night means bracing for damage it is witching hour when

oddly villages spring live, the d'arc makes it so much easier for elephants to surprise them along, electric fence lines, the river bank kept visible to humans in the black by plastic trash ribbons. that's a pretty eerie place. this kind of no man's land between where the elephants come from, a kind of national parks. and these farming fields, every.in the pitch black here a group of farmers trying to protect their land. and it feels bizarre to see this frontline mentality out here but used to fence the elephants into the forest. but new studies promote instead, fencing them out of the villages and farms still, sometimes they break through. and these men know what that is like a party still can't raise

his arm after a clash with an elephant two months ago he'd been asleep on a berm and his fields exhausted from harvesting whole new one i had loved they say, elephants have killed 26 people here since they started farming. >> this fields as children had no idea doesn't need it i'm from gummy calling me again illegal again there is no

guarantee of compensation if their crops or destroyed only them out here with a handful of thunder flashes supplied by the state. >> each week for all of you fever under the act, mega and willing to the integrability mecca a commercial plantation let's the sunrises. this is the moment of relief of rest and assessing damage and it is often a rafiq we've got to cool to come quickly two hours away a four year old female elephants has been shot it was

night, and she had entered a farm field. >> we don't know who shatter. they might be among the onlookers guns are mostly illegal, but shooting elephants definitely is except that happens a lot. there are signs. she's been in trouble before the green antiseptic from earlier that treatment also on her knee because this is a chest wound. >> there is not much they can do water and straw to keep a fed but really time is not her friend here. >> more of it won't heal her they built a plastic sheeting shelter for her to keep the sun away but that's in this buddhist countries seldom euthanize animals so they must just wait this is the closest these children say they've ever been to an elephant we'd like

to learn. it took another three nights& two days for her to die yet nature is capable of similar violence. we learned back in west game more suu zero can done a nice father was killed by an elephant. they were both security guards near the reservoir project. we saw earlier the elephant charged his father, causing fatal injuries to his head he made them i'll get it even if people they haifa i'm not that they have good. >> pull it in then. we'll get but they didn't the hook them

a look i'm going to want to come back on the elephant disturb near the road rash the father, sugata parlor. but he tried to save this is bicycle as well as his own life still. >> plastic elephant tasks or don his resting place. but what they are venerated, there is nothing gentle about them when threatened. >> arlene dividing and magee i. would tell that, we love the bicycle. the father saved still sits outside there is little, sympathy in the laws of the wild even less here near where he died where lives the village hunter. >> and what are parlor who doesn't want his face shone. >> the going in the mega and danny i'd argued, yeah, variety by you can look at baylor and

that don't i mean, yeah, burial that dollar budget a look at you, set the tripp why? i don't know it is rudimentary, but effective enough. he's laid several in the forest the fact he would only hit an elephant's feet would still make it deadly. >> how you gobbled, you're done than i will early who work all right? >> this clash, this crash between species, seems so unlikely out in the green vastness yet sri lanka has 10% of asia's elephants, but only

2% of its living space for them and still humans are coming from that but the battle here is often quiet intact tense moments of emptiness, anxiety, and panic nanda moved out here to escape abuse at home. she lives on the edge of the farmlands right next to the parks around to in the pitch black elephants look in the forest sometimes meters away, and raid at will hill. >> did endorse that liberal man on it we all know dangling over hundred tonight's all had is sitting ahead let them ideas in

a canal idea why you see regular way and so every night she spends awake, count doors often have watched begins up here alone in this tiny treehouse silent, sleepless, waiting with the ghost of a troubled past and the wind swaying they leave well, yeah. >> i mean, as i even a little like anything she's noticed the elephants get more aggressive than one on one his neck and

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south, we see how the painful rivalry between us and them for space to live lead to something uglier still elephants getting used to our world this is the port of handbag toyota built in a hurry by china and perhaps not as frantically busy as planned it remains source of debt and the reason to keep digging to prompt the growth that might pay the debt off with the trees here at curated space is left for nature in our asphalt world but even here in the emerging concrete jungle, we spot a herd it's dusk, and they are on the move cattle

again seem to compete for the grass then as dusk seems to bring the horizon closer, timeless rhythms emerge you have to whisper to not the elephants, but still, despite the breakneck development happening around three let's slowly coming together it's a magical to see this. that's been going on regardless of all human intervention for centuries what jr.'s is this routine? born in the privacy of the savanna. now, just a few meters away from the new highway this young one appears to have injured their left leg hobbling tended to for awhile, but also later distance from

the herd the port lights pick up and the sun ebbs the warning lights of our climate crisis ignored building for growth here for a future that's not been glimpsed yet. ignoring the lasting damage to the present sometimes the roads aren't cage but become a sort of playground where the elephants have the upper hand this road runs through a national park and it's lined with elephants trying to block the traffic until they are fed it's kind of hold up really preying on

human fear, panicking the uninitiated some really fancy the run the buses who drive this daily seemed to almost aim for them and then there are those who came prepared, knowing what the elephants want there's bananas food they, for the elephants kind of their tax on humans for getting into their space here. >> and it's pretty clear who controls this road this better and banned. it has worked this spot for awhile he lets us very close. >> his instinct does not seem to be two attack quite when they choose to lurch in, we do

not know it should be a mystery. >> we let them keep a few miles down the road, however, a walked sine of domestication as emerging every morning the municipality comes out and repairs the electric fence because every noon the elephants break it down again. >> but that'll thing that's enough quite why either sayyed sees the need to do what they do is baffling this is a place

of toxic stench, plastic smoke it's obvious to us why nothing living should want to be here we don't have to wait long to see what desperation here it looks like soon enough the end-user comes the voltage. >> which you can have bars by not even a cause for pause why the may as well be spawned candy he stops assesses our camera for a slightly

terrifying moments. but a larger the pressing prize awaits because this is what has come for to feast on garbage not deterred by smoke. that's things our eyes either. so hungry or walked in his diet that this is what healon jaw electric shocks to eat around 20 of the hundreds of elephants that circulates srilanka is trash heaps have died in recent years some poisoned, others starving as the plastic has filled their stomachs they were simply never meant to be this use to the human world thinking

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to watch, but this is actually good news the bars, the bandage mean he has been saved this is a home for all from elephants human carers do not know if the parents had dead justice. these young have been separated from the herd. normally because of injury yeah sadly, despite this care, elton died a few weeks later that sounds like it must

mean something in particular. >> but the facts here say it's basically a the reflection of the fact that she thinks fruit is coming and some elephants have very different personalities they think arati just perhaps a little grumpy the fed human baby formula in huge quantities but the number of orphans coming here is rising year-on-year ever more, showing signs of being wounded by humans in these cases, perhaps losing their parents to the conflict these are the rare few who get patched back together again most of the time, elephants just die quietly in the wild from their wounds about 50 year here,

feeding time is noisy and to help its funding a spectacle to the paradox here is keeping them alive using the human tools they have while nudging them back towards the wild this one sample mao is missing part of his lower jaw a survivor my, the so-called job bomb explosives deliberately hidden and vegetables by humans as a trap. >> detonating when the elephants by ten you may need a tube for some time more and may never eat like the rest of them but even this doesn't stop.

this little guy butting in the game humans administering, who gets human baby formula? >> it's about as far from nature because they could get some like lamarck will never truly live in the wild again yeah. >> this 13-year-old lost the bottom part of his leg to a snare and now we have made him a prosthetic foot if feet apart from the others lives apart from them to in this heat, now give them a wash down, a powerhouse, also something he never feel in nature human charity here is a response to its own brutality. >> fixing our own errors the sanctuary adjoins the lake, where people also wash the

amputees seems to have a to coexistence. it's a man who helps him base here, who is his companion and another man who put them in this position? it's pretty clear who is winning the avoidable battle between man and elephant that victims who strike back you've done smith quietly. and so let us see the violence we are due to nature they are a warning sign of how perilous our survival is if how deeply we are disrupting a planet that lets us feed, breathe, and drink and how lonely and baron our immediate future here could be it's been one year since the launch of the whole story. and so we want to close out tonight's program with a look at what we've shown you this past year all of these episodes are available to stream on max.

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